[kj] Music wanker poll

[Rheinhold Squeegee]

You would not have been the first person to smugly try to correct "Tombs" vs. "Crypt" and you would have been cast off the music snob Mt. Olympus with all the others. ;)

I was in a prog rock forum years ago observing a discussion of early 70's UK prog rock act Nirvana when some sad sack made a Kurt Cobain reference. The fury that followed cannot be described. I imagine there was nothing left but a smoking crater.



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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:13:29 +1300
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"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed indefinitely..."


On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:


I would have been inclined to correct you on Rocket from the Tombs, given that I’ve never heard of them, whereas I have heard of Rocket from the Crypt.




i saw Rocket from the Crypt in Auckland in '97....

wank wank!
 

 

As a quick Wikipedia search has shown, such a foolhardy mistake would have been earned me a thoroughly good dressing down, eviction, and possibly excommunication from the Music Wanker Convention / fraternity.

 I have so much to learn ;)

 

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 Rocket from the Tombs
Electric Eels
Half-Japanese


James Blood Ulmer
Au Pairs
Klaus Nomi

etc. etc.

Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:06:12 +0000
From: tabazan at gmail.com


To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Music wanker poll>I'd add Jandek and Lycopodeia to the list.

Has someone nicked my name?  

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:59 PM, powens <powens at gmail.com> wrote:

Great call on Nina Hagen and MX-80. I'd add Jandek and Lycopodeia to the list.

 On 15 November 2013 14:51, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:

R. Stevie Moore
Deaf School
Zolar X
Belfegore
MX-80 Sound
Nina Hagen
et. al.



Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:35:07 +0000
From: tabazan at gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [kj] Music wanker pollCasually throwing an original copy of Rude Bootleg by Cardiacs on the table should get some attention 

Hugely influential and more hated by the music press (back in the day) than even Killing Joke it took Tim having several heart attacks and a massive stroke to get them any form of acceptance 

 On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

 Ooh, toughie. Lots to choose from (and isn't THAT a dick comment?)

 I'm going to go with the Modern Lovers. Arguably as influential as The Velvet Underground and the Stooges, yet hardly as renowned, the original foursome made only one set of demos (later "produced" by John Cale and released as an album years later by California indie label, Bezerkly), but those end results were as seismic in shaping punk as anything by Iggy or Lou.

 The original line-up featured Jerry Harrison on keyboards (later to join Talking Heads) and Dave Robinson on drums (later to join The Cars). At one point in the proceedings, lead singer/strategist Jonathan Richman let his eccentricities hold sway and decided that he no longer wanted make music that would "offend the ears of children." As such, he told Dave Robinson to quit the drums and provide percussion by rolling up a newspaper and slapping it on his knee, to which Dave replied, essentially, "fuck that and fuck you, I'm out of here." That incarnation of the band -- unsurprisingly -- fell apart, and the blunt, proto-punky energy of the Modern Lovers vanished, replaced by Richman's bizarre penchant for childlike whimsy (a huge influence on later acts like Beat Happening -- WHO FUCKING SUCK -- and Jack White).

 Richman's solo albums have their own merits, but in terms of a criminally undersung, yet wholly influential slab of vinyl by a band who should be a household name --  to my mind -- one is hard pressed to cite someone more significant than The Modern Lovers.

 YOUR TURN!

  

  

On Nov 15, 2013, at 4:37 AM, bongo wrote:

 kitchens of distinction

  





"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed indefinitely..." 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

Given that name-dropping Killing Joke (esp ‘early’ Killing Joke) is the music-wanker equivalent of a triple word score in Scrabble, the poll question is as follows:


 
Which artist or band would you name-drop to get the highest possible score at a music-wanker convention?
 
Criteria include but are not limited to: lack of attempt at commercial success / downright self-sabotage, uniqueness, humour, social commentary, mental illness, artistic pain, substance dependency, early / mysterious / humorous death, ability to use ancillary wank-terms such as ‘musique concrete’, ‘the sound of the earth vomiting’ and so forth.


 
I’m going with ‘What is Pere Ubu?’
 


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